SHAME: 70 Percent of Americans Don't Know What the Constitution Is & 38 Percent Flunks Citizenship Test

SHAME:  It is a low-down dirty shame that 70 percent of Americans do not know that the Constitution is. Six percent are oblivious to when Independence Day is. It gets worse. Newsweek magazine recently gave 1,000 Americans the U.S. Citizenship test, which immigrants who apply for naturalization must take, and found that their is a serious lack of knowledge of the history and running of their own country. Though the majority passed the test, 38 percent failed. Here's the thing -- the government makes the test such a focal point of the whole naturalization process that it is laughable that some natural born citizens have no clue about the very thing they are forcing others to learn.
 
It is time to go back to basics. Children aren't learning much about their country in schools. I remember as a kid growing up in Jamaica, you had to know the national anthem, the names of the national heroes & heroine and the complete history of the island from A to Z. It's okay to move forward in this technological age, but we cannot do so at the expense of our children getting a solid education, which includes a complete history of their country.